Grillo launches OpenEEW, its IoT-based earthquake early warning system that will drive the creation of low-cost community projects around the world, with IBM, USAID, the Clinton Foundation and Arrow Electronics.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 11, 2020 / PRNewswire / – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization that enables massive innovation through open source, announced today that it will host Grillo’s OpenEEW assignment in collaboration with IBM to drive the standardization and implementation of the first Earthquake Caution (EEW) for earthquake preparedness worldwide. The task includes the fundamental parts of Grillo’s EEW formula with built-in functions to trip, trip and analyze earthquakes and alert communities. OpenEEW was created through Grillo with IBM, USAID, the Clinton Foundation and Arrow Electronics.
Earthquakes have the greatest serious consequences in emerging countries, as a component due to structure and infrastructure problems. Timely alerts can help save lives in communities where earthquakes pose the greatest risk. EEW systems provide public alerts in countries such as Mexico, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, yet nearly 3 billion people worldwide live at the risk of an earthquake and do not have access to national systems, which can charge more than $1 billion. Dollars OpenEEW needs to help reduce the prices of EEW systems, drive its implementations around the world and has the potential to save many lives.
“The OpenEEW assignment represents the most productive generation and open source,” said Mike Dolan, senior vice president and general manager of assignments at the Linux Foundation. “We are very pleased to be able to host such an important mapping and network at the Linux Foundation. The open source network can enable immediate progression and deployment of those critical systems around the world.
The OpenEEW mapping includes several key IoT components: the hardware and firmware of sensors capable of detecting and transmitting floor movements temporarily; Real-time detection systems that can be deployed on platforms from a Kubernetes cluster to a Raspberry Pi; and apps that allow users to get alerts about hardware devices, mobile devices, or mobile apps as temporarily as possible. The open source network aims to advance seismic generation by contributing to OpenEEW’s 3 built-in technological capabilities: sensor deployment, earthquake detection and alerting.
“For years, we have noticed that EEWEs have only been conceivable with very giant government funds, due to the burden of compromised infrastructure and the progression of algorithms. Active spaces can feel safe,” said Andrés Meira, founder of Grillo.
IBM and the Linux Foundation have a rich history of implementing assignments that fundamentally provide replacement and progress to society through innovation, and remain committed to COVID-19. The winner of the 2018 Global Call for Code Challenge, Project Owl, provided its IoT hardware firmware in March 2020 as a ClusterDuck protocol, and now Grillo’s OpenEEW is the latest open assignment to the communities that most desire it.
Initially connected to Grillo through the Clinton Foundation in a global Clinton Initiative (CGI) action network call, IBM is now playing a supporting role for Grillo by adding the OpenEEW seismic generation to the Linux Foundation-backed Call to Code implementation line.
“IBM is pleased to continue collaborating with Grillo and make a contribution to the new OpenEEW open source mapping with The Linux Foundation,” said Daniel Krook, Chief Technology Officer of Call for Code. “The Grillo generation has the prospect of helping save lives, which is precisely the kind of innovation we’re looking for in code call assignments. This is an exciting opportunity for the developer network to help us with software, hardware, and the global network as an open source mapping.”
Grillo sensors have generated more than 1 TB of knowledge since 2017 in Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, adding data from giant earthquakes of magnitude 6 and 7. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Oregon are already working with this knowledge, which will enable new strategies for earthquake characterization and detection through device learning.
“Understanding the terrain on which Mexico City is built is a vital aspect of earthquake risks. With the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, we are working with Grillo to implement a dense network of sensors in Mexico City and analyze local seismic habit and seismicity under the old lake basin. Our collaboration also allows the progression of open source software for the next generation of cloud seismology,” said Harvard Maine professor Denolle.
The main objective of the task is to inspire a variety of people (manufacturers, knowledge scientists, entrepreneurs, seismologists) to build EEWE in places such as Nepal, New Zealand, Ecuador and other seismic regions. This network can also contribute to OpenEEW by advancing sensor hardware design, earthquake detection and characterization by learning devices, and creating new strategies to send alerts to citizens.
For more information and to start contributing, visit: https://github.com/openeew/openeew https://openeew.com/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/code-and-response/
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